REPORTER AT LARGE about Peru. Peru is engaged in a struggle against the ruthless revolutionary movement, the Sendero Luminoso or Shining Path. The movement…
Best New Yorker Articles of 1988
Explore 52 featured picks from The New Yorker's 1988 issues.
52 picks · 52 issues · Top author: Raymond Bonner (2)
Most featured section: A Reporter at Large
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Just as Reagan was widely being written off as irrelevant, as a lame-duck President merely serving out his last days, the recent summit meeting here with …
If Tom, the narrator, wasn't gay, he would have married Jane, his friend from college. Instead, he introduced her to his brother Ethan, and Ethan …
Mentioned at length in REPORTER AT LARGE about the homeless. The rate of child poverty in 1984 was one-third higher than it had been in 1976. The …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the homeless. Writer tells about a woman he calls Laura, who lived at the Martinique Hotel with her 3 children. She eventually was …
Just before New Year's the narrator goes down to Florida with her ex-husband William. His mother, Lainie, is in the hospital with stomach pain. They …
This is a story of Hollywood & Kaye Wayfaring, now in her forties. She is a legendary movie actress who has also made a few music videos, but has not …
Beverly and her husband Joe, who live in Kentucky, separated about a year ago. For the sake of their three children they tried to get back together, …
A REPORTER AT LARGE about bats. Writer follows Merlin D. Tuttle, a world authority on bats and the founder and science director of Bat Conservation …
REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to Moscow to learn about the Soviet space program. The real space center, Starry Town just outside Moscow, where the …
REPORTER AT LARGE about Nicaragua. Tells of the political conflict in the country which led, early in the present century, to U.S. Marines being sent in …
REPORTER AT LARGE about Sri Lanka, an island nation off the southern tip of India. The country is divided into two hostile camps-those of the Sinhalese …
REPORTER AT LARGE about restructuring the Soviet economy by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. He took office in Mar., 1985 & announced the following Feb. …
REPORTER AT LARGE about auctioning art, especially about the sale, last fall, of van Gogh's "Irises" at Sotheby's in New York. The painting was …
REPORTER AT LARGE about Afghanistan which was invaded by the Soviet Union in 1979. The Soviet Union has had a long-standing interest in Afghanistan. After …
PROFILE of Mo Anthoine, 48, a mountain climber who lives in Nant Peris, Wales. He and his wife, Jacqueline Phillippe, own and operate Snowdon Mouldings, a …
PROFILE of former Republican presidential candidate & Arizona senator Barry Goldwater... Officially retired since January of 1987--after being a Republican…
Mrs. Longo has no aptitude for teaching, and she finds it disagreeable. Mr. Takahashi, whom she is coaching (tête-à-tête) at the moment, seems to her to have no aptitude for learning. But no sympathy, no mercy, no affection dilutes the rigor of her pedagogical efforts. It is not merely that Mr. Takahashi lacks charm for
This story begins with a quotation from "People" magazine which tells of the decline of Marguax Hemingway who was finally helped at the Betty Ford clinic. …
REPORTER AT LARGE about Kuwait, a segment of desert roughly the size of New Jersey. It has beneath its surface one of the world's largest reservoirs of…
PROFILE of London play agent Margaret Ramsay. From a playwright's point of view play agents are deal-makers, or matchmakers-pairing playwrights and …
A REPORTER AT LARGE about Indonesia... Indonesia is a country whose potential role in world affairs seems to be inversely proportional to the world's …
PROFILE of Father Joseph Greer, 56, a Roman Catholic priest whose parish covers almost 4 square miles of the town of Natick, which, with 8500 parishoners, …
Neil Sheehan’s 1988 profile of Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann.
Diana is being tutored by Professor David Reid about Chaucer when Prof. Hugh Hower-Bennett shouts through the open door that Jane Shaw, Ph.D. will be …
Maggie and Ira arrive at a church in a small town near Baltimore for the funeral of Max Gill, an old friend and the husband of Maggie's oldest friend, …
During a dinner party in August, Brian who lives in England receives a call from his friend Jo, who has been travelling worldwide for 6 mos. Now he is in …
A PROFILE of Ray Hicks, a champion story-teller who tells the "Jack tales". Hicks lives in southern Appalachia and will only leave it once a year to go to …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Great Barrier Reef & the threat to it from coral-eating crown of thorns starfish. The Reef stretches down the northeastern …
REPORTER AT LARGE about cafeterias, particularly the unique Laughner chain in Indiana. There are 5 Laughner cafeterias in Indianapolis, one in Plainfield, …
REPORTER AT LARGE about a month-long visit last fall to China by the writer & his Chinese-born wife, Jayjia. They explored the remarkable Long River (its …
Mark Moses on the singer as successor in a long line of R. & B. bandleaders, reviewing “Sign O’ the Times” and the album’s fast follow-up, “Lovesexy.”
Story about a boy, Wiley, his parents, S.L. and Lila, and their servant, Annemarie. Wiley recalls the 2 1/2 or 3 years that Annemarie was with them as …
REPORTER AT LARGE about Poland. On May 10th, a 16-day nationwide series of rolling strike actions by Polish workers came to an end as a few hundred Gdansk …
The author on her experience of California earthquakes, the 1988 Writers Guild of America strike, and the question of houses in the city—and what they are worth.
A REPORTER AT LARGE about trucks & about truck driver Lonnie Umphlett... Lonnie drives a tractor-trailer rig for Davis Transport of Missoula, Montana... …
A REPORTER AT LARGE about truck driver Lonnie Umphlett, truck stops & driving long-distance trucks. Writer tells how Umphlett manages his driving logs. …
A REPORTER AT LARGE about Soviet filmmakers & the second Entertainment Summit, held in the USSR... In April of 1986, the Moscow branch of the Soviet …
REPORTER AT LARGE about Lebanon, especially the country's powerful Maronite Christian community. It was thought this was a good time to go since the …
A REPORTER AT LARGE about alligators... Crocodilians, birds and dinosaurs had a common origin about 230 million years ago, in the Mesozoic Era, in a group …
Robert Cullen on Gorbachev’s rise in the Soviet Union—and the Stalinist essence of the country he was trying to govern and reform.
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Old South. Writer visited Charleston and Columbia in South Carolina. In Charleston the historical area is like arriving in …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Old South. Writer visited Mississippi. In Jackson he heard about the unusual state constitution, drafted in 1890, after the …
ANNALS OF DEMOCRACY about voting by computer. Since 1964 different kinds of computer-based voting systems have been installed nationwide. This year 55% of …
Fiction, from 1988: “In small ways it was turning out to be one of the best days of my life, whether it was somebody else’s dream or not.”
PROFILE of ballet dancer & director of the Miami City Ballet Edward Villella & discussion of the Balanchine ballet, "The Prodigal Son" which Villella is …
Sam works as a machinist's assistant at a rock quarry. At 19 he left home, moved to another town 90 miles away& began night classes. Going to night …
PROFILE of Kwabena Oppong, who is the king and supreme ruler of the African Ashanti tribespeople living in the U.S.
12 year old Russell& his older brother Ben drive out to Five Oaks Lake(MI)one Saturday afternoon in January to see the car that went through the ice two …
PROFILE of D. Wayne Lukas, a California horse trainer. From his base in California, Lukas has created a virtual franchise system of training, with racing …